Note 6 — PREFACE. (continued 3)

Supposing that Kaoao died by being prayed to death, and the owner of the corpse was sorely grieved; he, the owner of the corpse, would go before a sorcerer priest. Upon meeting, the owner of the corpse would relate the object of his coming before the sorcerer or (anaana) priest; in that very moment the priest would become cognizant of the person who had prayed Kaoao to death, because the shadow of the person who had wrought his death plainly stood before the priest. The priest would then say: “Here stands a tall yellow-haired man with a fish in his hand.” The owner of the corpse would then surmise that fish was the motive for the death of Kaoao. At the same time that the priest was cognizant of the one who had prayed him to death, he was also cognizant of the person who procured the fatal material (maunu),6 because it was a common occurrence that those who were proficient in the knowledge of a sorcerer priest were at the same time cognizant of the person who procured the material (maunu), through which death to one happened. When the likeness of the person who did the praying to death appeared before the priest it would be accompanied by that of the maunu procurer, if he was other [than the one who did the praying to death].